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Published Tuesday, July 20, 2021 11:05PM EDT OTTAWA - An organization counting retired military officers and diplomats among its ranks is looking for volunteers to welcome and help integrate any former
Afghan interpreters and their families who end up being evacuated to Canada. The call to arms from the Conference of Defence Associations Institute comes in anticipation the federal government will rescue dozens of
Afghans who are now facing Taliban arrest or worse for having previously worked with Canada. “We don t know exactly what the needs are going to be,” said Guy Thibault, chair of the institute and retired lieutenant-general. “We re just really trying to get ahead of it with a group of volunteers who have a connection to the whole story of
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TORONTO Afghan interpreters who helped Canadian troops on the front lines have yet to hear from the federal government on how they plan to extract them, as many desperately try to escape the resurging Taliban. The Taliban claims it now controls about 80 per cent of Afghanistan after the U.S. began its exodus from the Middle Eastern country, with the full evacuation of its military set for Aug. 31 as per President Joe Biden’s announcement earlier this month. While the U.S. has begun the process of evacuating some 2,500 interpreters and other support staff to a military base in Virginia pending approval of their visas, Afghans who helped Canada have heard no plan from Ottawa and Taliban forces are closing in.
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